Articles | Volume 27, issue 24
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-27-4409-2023
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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-27-4409-2023
© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Recent ground thermo-hydrological changes in a southern Tibetan endorheic catchment and implications for lake level changes
Léo C. P. Martin
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
Department of Geosciences, University of Oslo, Blindern, 0316 Oslo, Norway
Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, IRD, INRAE, CEREGE, Aix-en-Provence, France
Sebastian Westermann
Department of Geosciences, University of Oslo, Blindern, 0316 Oslo, Norway
Center for Biogeochemistry in the Anthropocene, Oslo, Norway
Michele Magni
Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
Fanny Brun
Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, IRD, Grenoble INP, IGE, Grenoble, France
Joel Fiddes
WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, Davos, Switzerland
Yanbin Lei
Key Laboratory of Tibetan Environment Changes and Land Surface Processes, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
CAS Center for Excellence in Tibetan Plateau Earth System Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
Philip Kraaijenbrink
Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
Tamara Mathys
Department of Geosciences, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland
Moritz Langer
Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, 14473 Potsdam, Germany
Department of Geography, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, 12489 Berlin, Germany
Simon Allen
Department of Geography, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
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- Slope-Controlled Partitioning of Vertical and Lateral Solute Transport Pathways Revealed by Inclined Leaching Experiments X. Zhou et al. https://doi.org/10.3390/w18060753
- Physical and biogeochemical responses of Tibetan Plateau lakes to climate change L. Zhu et al. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-025-00650-5
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Short summary
Across the Tibetan Plateau, many large lakes have been changing level during the last decades as a response to climate change. In high-mountain environments, water fluxes from the land to the lakes are linked to the ground temperature of the land and to the energy fluxes between the ground and the atmosphere, which are modified by climate change. With a numerical model, we test how these water and energy fluxes have changed over the last decades and how they influence the lake level variations.
Across the Tibetan Plateau, many large lakes have been changing level during the last decades as...